New businesses in New York, Los Angeles, Houston, Chicago

Auspector · Published: October 27, 2026

Between September 27 and October 27, 2026, 4,967 business records in New York, 3,807 in Los Angeles, 2,465 in Houston and 2,071 in Chicago entered our newly opened businesses section. Los Angeles received the most relative to its size in our database, and Los Angeles, Houston and Chicago each had more new dentists and dental clinics than New York.

Bar chart of new business records between September 27 and October 27, 2026 in four U.S. cities: New York 4,967, Los Angeles 3,807, Houston 2,465, Chicago 2,071.

How many new businesses are there in New York, Los Angeles, Houston and Chicago?

New York 4,967, Los Angeles 3,807, Houston 2,465 and Chicago 2,071: that is how many records in each city entered our newly opened businesses section between September 27 and October 27, 2026, 13,310 in all. New York here is the locality named New York on the address, not the five boroughs as a whole. In New York that averages about 166 a day, although arrivals swing from day to day: the date is when a record reached us, not when the business opened.

New business records in New York, Los Angeles, Houston and Chicago, September 27 – October 27, 2026
City	State	New records	All records in our database	New per 1,000 records
New York	New York	4,967	484,096	10.3
Los Angeles	California	3,807	243,766	15.6
Houston	Texas	2,465	231,104	10.7
Chicago	Illinois	2,071	153,357	13.5

September 27 – October 27, 2026. A city is the locality on the record’s address, not the metro area: New York is the locality named New York, not the five boroughs as a whole. Each state links to its data page. Compare the cities with each other, not with state or national totals (see the method box).

Relative to their size in our database, Los Angeles (15.6 new per 1,000 records) and Chicago (13.5) received the most, New York (10.3) the fewest. The rest of each state, city by city: New York, California, Texas and Illinois.

Which sectors are opening in each city?

New business records by sector in four U.S. cities, September 27 – October 27, 2026
Sector	New York	Los Angeles	Houston	Chicago
Restaurants	160	74	67	46
Dentists and dental clinics	56	95	98	80
Hair and beauty salons	110	54	62	36
Construction companies	74	88	37	15
Auto repair shops	31	69	61	10
Cafés	35	34	11	11
Supermarkets and grocery stores	53	8	6	12
Real estate agencies	35	9	18	16
Clothing stores	20	17	14	7
Gyms and fitness studios	18	17	7	8
Bars and pubs	16	9	12	8
Bakeries and pastry shops	20	11	7	6
Car dealers	10	10	11	<5
Pharmacies	<5	5	<5	<5

New records in the last 30 days. “<5”: fewer than five. Each sector links to its U.S.-wide data page. Counts are records; one business can have more than one. Compare a sector across cities rather than sectors within one city: some sectors carry a city on new records less often than others.

Read the table across, sector by sector. Several sectors run against city size: New York has the most records in our database, yet Los Angeles had more new dentists and dental clinics (95 to 56), construction companies (88 to 74) and auto repair shops (69 to 31); Houston had more new dentists and dental clinics (98 to 56) and auto repair shops (61 to 31); Chicago had more new dentists and dental clinics (80 to 56). New York is far ahead in restaurants (160, against 74 in Los Angeles). New York’s 53 new supermarkets and grocery stores outnumber the other three cities’ combined (26).

Read the dental counts as records rather than practices: one practice can have more than one record, and in our measurements new dental records share a phone number with another new record more often than restaurant records do. Construction companies and auto repair shops include businesses that serve customers across an area; they can have more than one record and carry a city less often, so their city counts are the least complete. The 14 sectors are only part of the flow: between 12% and 17% of each city’s new records. Everything else sits in other categories, each searchable under its own name. Below about 20 new records, a handful either way can swap two cities: one 30-day window is not a trend.

How many list a phone or a website?

Phone and website on new business records in four U.S. cities, September 27 – October 27, 2026
City	New records	Phone number	Own website	Website information	No website information
New York	4,967	56.0%	35.2%	44.6%	55.4%
Los Angeles	3,807	56.2%	31.7%	37.0%	63.0%
Houston	2,465	69.2%	41.3%	44.9%	55.1%
Chicago	2,071	52.5%	33.3%	50.9%	49.1%

Shares of each city’s new records. Website information includes booking, appointment and other platform pages; a social media profile alone counts as no website.

Houston has the highest phone share of the four (69.2%), Chicago the lowest (52.5%). Chicago stands out on platform pages: 366 new records (17.7%) list a booking, appointment or other platform page but no own website, against 9.4% in New York, 5.3% in Los Angeles and 3.7% in Houston. Los Angeles has the largest share with no website information at all: 2,400 new records, 63.0%. An empty field does not prove there is no site, but it is a good first question.

What it means if you sell to new businesses in these cities

Set the cadence by volume. One sector in one city is a small stream: new restaurant records averaged about 37 a week in New York and 11 in Chicago. Save the search and new matches arrive by email every day, so a rep who works the list once a week still reaches each business within days of its record reaching us.
Dental supplies, equipment and practice software. Los Angeles (95), Houston (98) and Chicago (80) each had more new dental records than New York (56): for this sector, the biggest city is not the first territory. Group records by phone number before you count practices.
Food and drink suppliers, payments. New restaurant, café, bakery and bar records together: New York 231, Los Angeles 128, Houston 97 and Chicago 71 — in New York, about 8 a day, enough for a daily call block on its own.
Building and auto parts, equipment rental, insurance. Los Angeles had the most new construction companies and auto repair shops of the four (157 together), ahead of New York (105). These are the least complete city counts; a county search takes in the suburbs around the city as well.
Web design. Los Angeles has the highest share of new records with no website information (63.0%); Chicago has the highest share with only a platform page (17.7%) — businesses that already have a booking, appointment or other platform page but no domain of their own.

How to pull one city’s list

Location: United States, the state, then the city — the same address locality as in this article. The county takes in the suburbs as well.
Filters: newly opened businesses, then a sector or a narrower category. Categories are each record’s own, so “dental clinic” can be a list of its own. Phone — has, for a call list; Website — none, for web design prospects.
Count, then open: search and counts are free on every plan; a credit is spent only when you first open a record, and an export counts as an open (pricing).

Is there an official monthly count for these cities?

We know of no official series that counts business openings in these four cities each month. The nearest national series, the U.S. Census Bureau’s Business Formation Statistics, counts applications for an Employer Identification Number: a filing, not a business location, and one that can come months before an opening or without one. Why the two numbers should be read side by side and never subtracted: Census business applications vs. businesses that open.

How this was measured

A record is one business location in our database, not a company: a chain with 40 branches is 40 records, and one business can have more than one record — more often in sectors that serve customers across an area, such as construction and auto repair. A new record entered our newly opened businesses section between September 27 and October 27, 2026 (up to our database build of October 27, 2026); the date is the day it reached us, not the business’s opening date.

A city is the locality on the record’s address, not the metro area or the county: “New York” is the locality named New York, in New York State — not the five boroughs as a whole; “Los Angeles”, “Houston” and “Chicago” likewise in California, Texas and Illinois. An address that names another place is counted under that name. Records whose address names Brooklyn (92 new in the window) are counted under Brooklyn, not New York. Long Beach (368 new) and Evanston (62 new) are separate cities next to Los Angeles and Chicago and are not included; nor are Houston’s neighbors such as Pasadena or Sugar Land.

Some new records do not carry a city yet. New records lack one more often than older records, and how often varies by sector — most often in businesses that serve customers across an area, such as construction. The city figures can therefore be compared with each other, sector by sector, but not with state or national totals: across the U.S., 337,207 records entered the section in the same window, and that total also includes records with no city.

Sectors are fixed groups of categories — “dentists and dental clinics”, for example, covers dentists, dental clinics, paediatric and cosmetic dentists, implant and emergency dental practices. Fewer than five new records are shown as “<5”. Own website: the business’s own domain. Website information: an own website or a booking, appointment or other platform page; a social media profile on its own counts as neither. Shares describe our records, measured on October 27, 2026.

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